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Canada PoliERA |OT| Two Years of Sunny Days? That’s Scheer Madness!
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These fuckers really are planning on gutting and provitizing healthcare, aren't they. Why else would they feel the need to litter in this phrase throughout the budget if it wasn't to get things setup for when they flip the switch.
Legally if you are getting healthcare, it's done through OHIP and covered through OHIP and you can't have private providers offering the same healthcare, paid.
Seems that way. Because what Ontarians are screaming about in the streets is more gambling options....
Poker, sports gambling and Privitized online Casinos. Gotta get in bed with money launderers after all
The big thing would be letting people bet on a single sporting event, and entirely online. Currently you need to bet on at least 3 games and you do have to visit a convenience store to do it.
Honestly, if the government is gonna let people play slots online (and it was the previous government that set that up) they might as well build a casino at Ontario Place. At least the casino might collect some money from tourists and passing business travelers (it'd be a very short shuttle ride from Billy Bishop).
It's a trillium flower
While we're at it we should change the Ontario flag. Just put the trillium on a green background.
The same way they got my cell phone and text mesaaged me carbon tax propaganda.
This is the Conservatives we are talking about here. If they redesign the flag it'll be a Trillium on a Blue background. To match their totally-not-conservative branded License Plates.
I'm sure they got it from a totally legit, non-leaked corporate source. Like the 407 Expressway records (if Ontario).
Considering the propaganda was sent from his official email, I sent him a nasty email in response. The last thing I want is Conservative trash filling up my inbox.
Looks like a broken take on the triquetra. It won't take much to fix it once a new government is in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra
Interesting.
Ford gov making an attempt at co-opting(or appeasing haha) after the cuts to french language services.
killerrin this is what I saw in it. A childhood full of king James bibles will do that to a person I guess. I had no idea what a trillium was before today's posts so thank you Ontario-Era.
Alright, I can kind of see it. Being irreligious myself I didn't know that was a thing either. So thanks for sharing guys
Mostly bullshit. There are some caveats, it isn't impossible. I'll go about this in a roundabout way. So stay with me:
What isn't bullshit is that if Sheer and Kenney win, that would put the list of provinces which have Conservative leadership into a supermajority within the country as a while.
It would mean Federally we have: Andrew Scheer
Provincially we would have:
- Ontario (Doug Ford)
- Quebec (Francois Legault)
- New Brunswick (Blaine Higgs)
- Manitoba (Brian Pallister)
- Alberta (Jason Kenney)
- Saskatchewan (Scott Moe)
It would be very bad for progressivism in this country since Conservatives would have a very tight majority over almost all of the most influential provinces in the country. Everything Harper wanted to do, but couldn't because they had provinces opposing them would suddenly be right out in the opened ripe for the picking. Just Ontario and Quebec is scary enough, containing over 61% of the population between them. Especially since they are usually the major holdouts against Conservative Governance at the federal level. It could also mean that they pull a USA and flip the deck on our Supreme Court. Trying to stack things in their favour as spots open up.
So now for where things get bad. To modify the constitution, there isn't actually a requirement that things go to Referendum. The only requirements are:
- It passes in the Federal House
- It passes in the Federal Senate
- An identical Law is passed in 2/3rds of Provincial Legislatures, where their total population makes up at least 50% of the national population. This rule called the 7+50 rule, which means 7 Provinces and 50% of the Population.
- They are just shy of the 7 Provinces (but BC could always flip back to BC Liberals and solve that issue)
- The Senate. Which also, can be fucked around with because they can stack the deck on every retiring Senator, and the pool of free senators which can be pulled from at a slight political hit and a trip to the GG (reserved for emergencies) is currently topped out at 8. So right now, they are sitting at 31/105 (or 39/113 if they used the extras). So they would have to convince the ISG or Non-affiliated to join their cause. Which could be possible depending on how they swing.
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They just went back to the old logo.
I honestly prefer the '60s style wingding to the 2000s era "three men in a hot-tub" logo.
I honestly prefer the '60s style wingding to the 2000s era "three men in a hot-tub" logo.
If Alberta's election is a preview of what's to come of the federal one, then holy hell is it going to be wild: RCMP Search Business Owned by Calgary UCP Candidate
i had thought the UCP was assured a win but goddamn there is a scandal every day coming from their party. who vetted their candidates? i read about one candidate who was abusing the temp foreign worker program and basically keeping slaves. like wtf
https://pressprogress.ca/ucp-candid...g-temporary-foreign-workers-in-dark-basement/
not sure how credible this site is though so it might be bullshit.
https://pressprogress.ca/ucp-candid...g-temporary-foreign-workers-in-dark-basement/
not sure how credible this site is though so it might be bullshit.
It's bad that Conservative scandals don't even phase me anymore. Like I just expect them to be wildly corrupt. Like if a given candidate isn't under investigation, I feel like that should be a gigantic red flag to investigate them for something just by association.
Meanwhile Progressives even think about being corrupt and their entire voter-base kicks them to the curb, it turns into a 24/7 media frenzy, and the voters tell them to take a hike.
Meanwhile Progressives even think about being corrupt and their entire voter-base kicks them to the curb, it turns into a 24/7 media frenzy, and the voters tell them to take a hike.
Harper's scandals were not that simple though. One had you need to check with a constitution expert to understand what a prorogation was and entailed and the other was about the senate housing and residence stipends rule. Neither were easy to understand or that easy. In the case of the latter Duffy even got away with it in total impunity.
Don't the liberals, even with trudeau's 'independent' senators, have the numbers to block any conservative stupidity?
Never got one politician knock on a door at any of my houses yet.
Best election ever?
*shakes magic 8 ball and sees Preston Manning's face show up*
"AHH!"
Best election ever?
*shakes magic 8 ball and sees Preston Manning's face show up*
"AHH!"
Harper's senate expense scandal is a complete nothingburger compared to SNC Lavalin. Improper use of an expense account versus Trudeau attempting to impose political will on the independent justice system. SNC Lavalin is so so so wildly worse, they're not even comparable.
Seems like the sort of policy that could encourage a desperate person turn to violence. Despite expecting them to be reckless and shortsighted Thug Ford's regime continues to find ways to surprise me.
Pretty sure average Joe gives next to zero fucks about either of them though. Nothingburger vs nothingburger with a side of fries in the eyes of people I've talked with.
Yeah, but "the guy from TV" Mike Duffy lying about living in his cottage to claim money for living expenses is so much easier to parse and understand than Trudeau pressuring the AG to prosecute SNC-Lavalin under this statute instead of under that statute, because they wanted to protect jobs in Quebec.
No one cut anyone a cheque and then tried to hide it in the SNC scandal. It's less sexy.
Money is easy to understand though. I'd argue that the more complex the scandal is to understand, the worse it is on public perception because the public defaults to an "I don't know what this is, but everybody more intelligent than me is screaming about it. Therefore they must literally be the devil". It's why when the Conservatives blow a shit-ton of cash and have money scandals left-right and center the people don't even bat an eyelid because they expect it to happen and they understand it, but when something comes up that they don't understand, it causes them to view it more negatively
On the other hand, gas prices in Ontario keep going up and down like usual, many days have still been cheaper than pre-carbon tax
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